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Champions & Grand Aggregate Winners CHAMPIONS & GRAND AGGREGATE WINNERS Annual Bonspiel of the Manitoba Branch of the Royal CalCaleeeedoniandonian Curling Club 1889 ––– 1907 MCA ANNUAL BONSPIEL 1908 ––– 2013 MANITOBA OPEN BONSPIEL 2014 ––– present CurlManitoba – Bonspiel Champions & Aggregate Winners Since 1889 ( December 1, 2020 ) Page 1 Manitoba’s 150 th anniversary celebration provides motivation for review of history in many areas, including Manitoba proud curling heritage. This document accumulates together, for the first time, an acknowledgement of all of the Manitoba Curling Association’s annual bonspiel “champions”. The project was initiated by Les Ferris of Holland, inspired by local history which tells the story of Holland’s Hector McLean team returning home to a brass-band reception after winning the MCA’s annual bonspiel in 1900. Ferris’ first research was possible thanks to a set of early MCA annual publications, originally collected by Stan Oleson and Ab Gowanlock. The research effort of MCA ‘historians’ Rick Mutton and Heather Helston is acknowledged and appreciated as an additional foundation of this document. The support of Heidi Rees, Reference Services, Manitoba Legislative Library is also much appreciated. Reference has been made to archive copies of the annual bonspiel programmes (which evolved into the association’s annual publication). Archive copies of the Winnipeg Free Press, Manitoba Morning Free Press, and Winnipeg Tribune have provided key insights into the bonspiels of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. In addition, reference has also been made to the Morris Mott/John Allardyce book Curling Capital: Winnipeg and the Roarin’ Game, 1876 to 1988 and to the archives of thecurler.com. The documented was drafted by Resby Coutts on behalf of CurlManitoba and the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame & Museum. AN INVITATION TO READERS The summary which follows incorporates the accumulated efforts of MC/MLCA/CurlManitoba staff and volunteer historians and curling fans over several decades. It may be inevitable that minor errors such as misspelled names or other details, which were included in the record book decades ago, have been continued here. Any reader who identifies such an item is asked to contact the Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame & Museum by email: [email protected] CurlManitoba – Bonspiel Champions & Aggregate Winners Since 1889 ( December 1, 2020 ) Page 2 CHAMPIONS OF THE ANNUAL MCA BONSPIEL In 1888, seven Manitoba Curling Clubs met to form a provincial curling association. In prior discussion among curlers, one of their reasons stated for establishing an association was to run an annual bonspiel. The organization, originally named the Manitoba Branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club, staged its first bonspiel in 1889 and has hosted an annual bonspiel every year since. The Annual Bonspiel of the Manitoba Branch of the RCCC, referred to in some cases as The Manitoba Branch’s Bonspiel , became the Manitoba Curling Association Bonspiel , usually just known as MCA Bonspiel or The MCA , when the organization’s name changed in 1908, and the Manitoba Open beginning in 2014. At this stage, the question of identifying a Bonspiel Champion for the first 12 bonspiels, the years 1889 to 1900, is subject to interpretation. In those years, and for some years after, teams entered each event or trophy competition individually. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that the bonspiel was viewed not as one large competition but as a series of individual competitions with the extended inference that winning each competition was a separate accomplishment independent of the others. For the years 1889 to 1897, there were TWO open events in the bonspiel. Beginning in 1898, there were THREE open events in the bonspiel. However, it is the writers’ belief that winning the Grand Challenge Cup in the 1889 to 1894 bonspiels and then the renamed New York Life Challenge Cup was considered to be winning the bonspiel championship. This argument is supported by newspaper articles of the day. • February 14, 1894; Winnipeg Free Press Bonspiel Special Edition includes a description of each of the trophy competitions in the annual bonspiel. The Grand Challenge is described this way ….. The one which is looked upon as the best of the lot is the grand challenge, as in this competition there are no restrictions, any number of rinks being allowed to compete . • March 9, 1889: Winnipeg Free Press headline – Harstone defeats Sparling for the big prize of the bonspiel (Note: The Harstone team won the Grand Challenge Cup in the first bonspiel) • From the same newspaper: "Interest in the curling bonspiel yesterday centered almost entirely in the final game of the Challenge Cup match….The contest for supremacy took place in the afternoon ....... • February 20, 1890: Winnipeg Free Press story content – "In many respects this was the greatest event of the bonspiel, as the curling championship of the branch goes with the cup, for which every club entering must compete." • February 7, 1891 : Winnipeg Tribune headline - Mark Fortune looked upon as the champion skip of the world with win over Harstone in Grand Challenge Cup (Note: Assuming the headline reflects the common feeling of the day that the Grand Challenge CurlManitoba – Bonspiel Champions & Aggregate Winners Since 1889 ( December 1, 2020 ) Page 3 Cup winner was ‘the champion of the world’, then the inference is clear that this was considered the bonspiel champion) • From the same newspaper: “In Walkerville, Mark Fortune was ordered to play last night or default and he defaulted to the Baker rink" (Note: If the Fortune team defaulted in one Open Event but played the other final, the inference is equally clear that the player’s considered one event (Grand Challenge) more important than the other. For the same period of time, the Manitoba Branch’s Bonspiel Programme clearly defined the bonspiel’s primary competition as being the Grand Challenge Cup, and then New York Life Challenge Cup. This inference is based upon the following: • The New York Life was always listed first in the annual bonspiel publication • In numerical order, the New York Life was always listed as #1 • In the outline in the publication, the New York Life Challenge Cup was, in the language of the time “the opening match of the meeting” which translates, in current terminology as “the open event to begin the bonspiel”. Based on the above, the winners of the Grand Challenge Cup, and then New York Life Challenge Cup, are represented herein as the Bonspiel Champions for those early years. The first formal reference to a bonspiel champion appears in the 1906 Bonspiel Programme (the18th annual bonspiel publication of the Manitoba Branch of the RCCC). Following the ten individual pages dedicated to specific bonspiel events and competitions, there is an outline of 1st place, 2 nd place and 3 rd place Championship Prizes to be awarded – first prize going to the team winning the greatest number of games actually played (no defaults to count) in the three Open Competitions of the bonspiel. In addition to being this being the first reference to a Championship of the bonspiel, the 1906 annual publication specifically refers to the Championship as a Grand Aggregate . However, this is not the first reference to Grand Aggregate. Beginning with the 1901 bonspiel, the annual publication identifies rules for awarding Special Aggregate Prizes. While there is no specific reference to this being a bonspiel championship, it is a clear inference that being the winner of the greatest number of games in the three Open Competitions was becoming acknowledged as a greater accomplishment than winning any one of those Open Competitions. In 1902, the “most wins” concept was extended by the inclusion of an additional separate prize for the greatest number of wins in the bonspiel. It was clearly two unique prizes as the Special Aggregate and the overall ‘most wins in bonspiel’ were won by two different teams. In 1903, the first reference to a Grand Aggregate appears in the annual bonspiel. That year, the winner of the Special Aggregate (most wins in the Open competitions) also received a special prize titled “Grand Aggregate of Bonspiel”. It is unclear if this additional prize was a continuation of the 1902 concept of ‘most wins in bonspiel’ or if it was simply an additional prize awarded to the Special Aggregate winner. CurlManitoba – Bonspiel Champions & Aggregate Winners Since 1889 ( December 1, 2020 ) Page 4 However, it appears that the 1902 and 1903 concept was not continued in 1904 and 1905 when only the Special Aggregate was awarded, As noted above, Championship prizes, referred to as Grand Aggregate, were awarded first in 1906 and awarded annually thereafter until a format change for the 2009 bonspiel. For over a hundred years, from 1906 until 2008, a Grand Aggregate winner was identified and was publically acclaimed as the bonspiel winner – the term Aggregate referring to the greatest number of accumulated wins in identified ‘open’ events in the bonspiel. In 2009, the bonspiel and hence the bonspiel championship took on a new format. With all teams competing in a single open event to begin the bonspiel, the bonspiel champion is the winner of that single open event. (V8 Draft prepared December, 2020) 1889 – 1893: Annual Bonspiel Manitoba Branch - RCCC: The Grand Challenge Cup 1894 - 1900: Annual Bonspiel Manitoba Branch - RCCC: New York Life Challenge Cup 1889 – S. G. (Sam) Harstone, Granite, Winnipeg Jack Patterson, James McDonald, Charles Carbert 1890 – H. G. (Herb) Wilson, Granite, Winnipeg Billy Grant, James Mitchell, Samuel Rowbothan 1891 – Mark Fortune, Granite, Winnipeg Thomas Kelly, William Georgeson, Thomas Johnston 1892 – J. D. (John) Flavelle, Lindsay, Ontario Jack McMillan, Willian McLennan, W.H. Simpson 1893 – R. G. (Robert) McDonald, Granite, Winnipeg William Manning, James Gallagher, Robert Harvie 1894 – Dr. M. C. Clarke, Granite, Winnipeg John Waugh, James McDonald, Chester Stovel 1895 – R.
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